Copyright © 2001 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Task Force Report
Guidelines on management (diagnosis and treatment) of syncope
Task Force on Syncope, European Society of Cardiology,
a Department of Cardiology and Arrhythmologic Centre, Ospedali Riuniti, Lavagna, Italy
b Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale Civile, Cento, Italy
c Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
d Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service, Department of Cardiology, Thoracic Clinics, Karolinska Hospital, Stockolm, Sweden
e Departement de Cardiologie, Hopital de la Cavale Blanche, CHU de Brest, France
f Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark
g Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
h Manchester Heart Centre, Royal Infirmary Manchester, UK
i Medizinische Klinik IV, Kardiologie Klinicum der JW Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
j Kardiocentrum, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
k Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
l Institute for the Health of the Elderly, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
m Department of Cardiology, Med. Centre of Postgraduate Education, Grochowski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland
n Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
o Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale Umberto I, Mestre-Venice, Italy
p Department of Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, U.K.
q 2° Department of Cardiology, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
r Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract
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f1 Correspondence: Michele Brignole, MD, FESC, Department of Cardiology and Arrhythmologic Centre, Ospedali Riuniti, 16033 Lavagna, Italy.
This document has been reviewed by members of the Committee for Practice Guidelines (formerly Committee for Scientific and Clinical Initiatives) and by the members of the Board of the European Society of Cardiology (see Appendix 1), who approved the document on 8 March 2001. The full text of this document is available on the website of the European Society of Cardiology in the section ‘Scientific Information’, Guidelines.
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